Alec Barrett for TWO-N describes the benefits and some of the intricacies of…Tags: animation, transitions | Continue reading
Maps typically show a view from straight above, which is good for navigation…Tags: perspective, satellite | Continue reading
Woo. Woo. Alex Hern reporting for The Guardian: In at least one previous…Tags: facebook, privacy | Continue reading
Facebook and Google (among other companies) know a lot about you through the…Tags: facebook, Google, privacy | Continue reading
From 2010, Steve Jobs on data privacy:…Tags: privacy, Steve Jobs | Continue reading
Building on their previous visualization work on black boys dropping income levels in…Tags: demographics, income, Upshot | Continue reading
Lisa Charlotte Rost for Datawrapper provides guidance for designing choropleth maps that most…Tags: choropleth, color | Continue reading
As we get older, job options shift — along with experience, education, and wear on our bodies.Tags: age, work | Continue reading
Emily Baumgaertner reporting for The New York Times: But critics of the change…Tags: census, citizenship, immigration | Continue reading
Vega-Lite is a grammar for interactive graphics primarily used for analysis. Altair is…Tags: Python | Continue reading
The USA National Phenology Network uses a computer model to estimate heat build-up…Tags: New York Times, weather | Continue reading
Issie Lapowsky for Wired: The change that’s already come to Pennsylvania may not…Tags: gerrymandering, Wired | Continue reading
As you can imagine, there was plenty of conversation between Earth and Apollo…Tags: Apollo 11, conversation, space | Continue reading
Research by Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, Maggie Jones, and Sonya Porter from the…Tags: income, race, Upshot | Continue reading
Army ants function without a leader and yet accomplish very organized-looking things, such…Tags: ants, independence | Continue reading
Frustrated with vehicles blocking bus and bike lanes, Alex Bell applied some statistical…Tags: bike lane, machine learning | Continue reading
Michael W. Kearney implemented a classifier for Twitter bots. It’s called botornot: Uses…Tags: bot, machine learning, Twitter | Continue reading
The Upshot has used a needle to show shifts in their live election…Tags: needle, uncertainty, Upshot | Continue reading
Kofi Annan for Nature on the importance of data in ending poverty and…Tags: gaps, hunger | Continue reading
Many cities provide free bus tickets for homeless people who want to relocate.…Tags: Guardian, homeless | Continue reading
Speaking of outliers, it’s not always obvious when and why a data point…Tags: outlier, R | Continue reading
Neural networks can feel like a black box, because, well, for most people…Tags: Google, neural network | Continue reading
Step 1: Figure out why the outlier exists in the first place. Step 2: Choose from these visualization options to show the outlier.Tags: outlier | Continue reading
I think it’s every statistician’s fantasy to crack open a lottery’s flaw using the numbers. No? Just me? Okay, whatever.Tags: lottery | Continue reading
As 2020 approaches, let's aim for higher accuracy and less uncertainty.Tags: census, counting | Continue reading
In a project he calls Sentence Space, Robin Sloan implemented a neural network…Tags: neural network, sentence | Continue reading
False positives. Over-policing. Bias. This isn't stuff you just mess around with.Tags: Palantir, police, prediction, privacy, Verge | Continue reading
Smart home. Smart city. They have a positive ring to it, as if…Tags: privacy, smart city | Continue reading
556 people have gone to space. In an article on their changed perspectives,…Tags: astronauts, National Geographic, space | Continue reading
Make the unit chart less abstract with icons that represent the data, or use this in place of a bar chart.Tags: R | Continue reading
Birds migrate to areas more hospitable, but where do they go? It depends…Tags: birds, migration | Continue reading
A car moving at 70 miles per hour has to stop suddenly. Another…Tags: Numberphile, speeding, traffic | Continue reading
Mikhail Popov, a data scientist at the Wikimedia Foundation, led a workshop on…Tags: learning | Continue reading
A waiting simulator to take out some of the guesswork.Tags: simulation, waiting | Continue reading
Every year, we look at the medal counts of each country. Who’s winning?…Tags: Josh Katz, Olympics, Upshot | Continue reading
Every time we book a flight, a Passenger Name Record is generated and…Tags: privacy, travel | Continue reading
Mikaela Shiffrin won her first gold medal in PyeongChang with a fraction of…Tags: New York Times, Olympics, skiing | Continue reading
This is fun. It’s a fantasy map generator with the following rules: Project…Tags: fantasy, generator | Continue reading
One of my least favorite electrical engineering courses in college was on signals…Tags: Fourier Transform | Continue reading
When you have input to send Congress, you have a number of communication…Tags: feedback, flowchart, government | Continue reading
If you’re looking for some data to play with, FiveThirtyEight just made it…Tags: FiveThirtyEight | Continue reading
Well this is awesome. The New York Times highlighted four olympians with a…Tags: New York Times, Olympics | Continue reading
You know those graphics that use icons of people to represent units or…Tags: font, icons, people | Continue reading
After living expenses, where does the money go, and how does it change when you have more cash available?Tags: spending | Continue reading
Well this is awesome. The Winter Olympics start this Friday, and The New…Tags: augmented reality, New York Times, Olympics | Continue reading
Professional tennis player Roger Federer won his 20th Grand Slam title recently. He’s…Tags: Roger Federer, sports, tennis | Continue reading
The Wallace–Bolyai–Gerwien theorem says that if you have two polygons of equal area,…Tags: geometry, theorem | Continue reading
Odds are if you’re reading this, you know what statistics is already, but…Tags: learning, video | Continue reading